Young readers can come face-to-face with the most fearsome creatures to ever walk the earth, from Apatosaurus to Zuniceratops. Discover the lifestyles of real, living and breathing dinosaurs - their pack behaviors and hunting strategies; their nurturing and savage sides; their instincts and intelligence. Revel in the majesty of migrating sauropods, and marvel at the might of the most powerful hunters ever to walk the Earth. Then take to skies and seas, soaring with pterosaurs and diving with ichtyosaurs. Complex ideas are made simple by clear, easy-to-understand diagrams, fact-packed feature boxes, and ingenious infographics.

Claudia Martin has written extensively for children and young adults. She specializes in books on geography, history, technology, current affairs and the natural world. She lives in London.

Mat Edwards is an extraordinarily versatile artist, who can create everything from photo-realistic prehistoric vistas to vintage-style paintings. He has learnt at the feet of some tremendously skilled artists such as map makers and engravers, evolving from using purely traditional materials such as pencils, gouache, stretching paper to using almost all-digital methods.